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Date:      Sun, 03 May 1998 15:21:50 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        "Justin M. Seger" <jseger@freebsd.scds.com>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FM Radio Apps? 
Message-ID:  <199805032221.PAA03004@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 18:26:24 EDT." <199805032226.SAA11888@freebsd.scds.com> 

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I am going to have to update out bt848 web page the request for FM apps
is becoming more frequent 8)

	Amancio


 Flemming Jacobsen <fj@login.dknet.dk> said:
> Hi,
>   As Amancio posted earlier, all of my patches to support the radio on
> Hauppauge cards with Philips tuners are now in. I've put a small radio
> application up for grabs at: ftp://login.dknet.dk/pub/fj/radio.tgz
> It's a very simple Tcl/Tk/Tix application, which a decent X programmer
> could write much better in half a day, it's been working very well for
> me since December though. 

> 	Hyg'
> 	Flemming

> Quick docs for the radio ioctl's:

> In order to support the radio tuner part of the Philips F[MR]1216,
> I've added 4 new ioctl's. All 4 use integer arguments.
>       RADIO_SETMODE - Sets the mode of the radiotuner. The active bits
> in
>                       this bitfield are:
>                               RADIO_AFC  - Enable AFC (Automatic
> Frequency
>                                            Control).
>                               RADIO_MONO - Mono.
>                               RADIO_MUTE - Mute the output of the
>                                            radiotuner.
>       RADIO_GETMODE - Read the currently set modes.
>       RADIO_SETFREQ - Set the frequency of the tuner. The argument is
>                       <freq>*100, i.e. in order to set the tuner to 
>                       recieve at station at 103.45MHz, the argument
>                       should be 10345.
>       RADIO_GETFREQ - Read the currently set frequency.

> The modes set with RADIO_SETMODE won't be active until the next time
> RADIO_SETFREQ is called, thus if you want to switch to mono mode, you
> have to call RADIO_SETMODE with the RADIO_MONO bit set AND after that
> call RADIO_SETFREQ (probably with the same argument as last time).

> The spec. sheet of the Philips FR1216 seem to indicate that it won't
> support the modes set with RADIO_SETMODE. Since I only have an FM
> version I've been unable to verify this.

> The FM1216 is a PAL B/G version. I haven't investigated how the tuners
> for other TV formats are controlled, but I can't see why Philips would
> change the interface.

> --  Flemming Jacobsen            It'll probably say something like
> "Does not
>                              compute" or "Inoperative parameters".
> That's Email: fj@login.dknet.dk     what it says when it doesn't know
> and doesn't Phone: +45 35 43 33 49       want to admit it.  -- Terry
> Pratchett: Wings 


> Do we currently have any apps that will play FM radio from a Hauppauge (sp?)
> WinTV card?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Justin Seger-
> 
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